If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year - and therefore did.

If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see.

See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.

Beauty is that Medusa's head which men go armed to seek and sever, and dead will starve and sting forever.

What is wrong is not the great discoveries of science—information is always better than ignorance, no matter what information or what ignorance. What is wrong is the belief behind the information, the belief that information will change the world. It won’t.